David Straus walks through an exercise to find your soul purpose: write "I am the ___ that ___" up to 20 times, pushing past your first instinct. He argues that teachers, doctors, poets, homemakers, anyone can transform lives when driven by love and clear goals.
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This would be a good time for you to hit pause on your monitor and write down your sole purpose. And then write down another version. And then write down another version. Actually, I am the in the space that Evan, leave the space. And I want you to tell me how you would fill that out right now. I am the blank that blanks. This one came really fast. And do it 20 times. Iterate on it. If you feel like you're playing in a small sandbox, really push yourself and see if you could play in a bigger sandbox. And if you say to yourself, well, I'm already playing a net pretty big sandbox, push yourself and see if you could play in a gigantic sandbox. And if you're sitting there and you're saying, oh, I'm already playing in a gigantic sandbox, I wrote this one. And every word that I chose I think makes a lot of sense. And it spoke very true to me, which is. And that was a strong statement for me. Push yourself a little more and see truly how big you can play, how many people can you affect? What can you do to really transform the lives of others, to show up in the way you want to show up? You know, when I say, what can you do to transform the lives of others? Understand that we all hold different jobs in the world. Teachers transform their students lives every day. Doctors and healers, they transform their patients every day. Politicians, homemakers, poets, writers, everybody has the ability to transform our surroundings. So it doesn't matter what job you're in, it matters that you're doing what you love to do and that what that love is drives you and that you're tethered to being able to accomplish your particular goals in life.
